Time in Indian music
Subtitle: rhythm, metre, and form in North Indian rāg performance
By: Martin Clayton
Series: Oxford monographs on music; Oxford monographs on music
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780195339680
Subjects: Hindustani music; Raga; Tala; Musical meter and rhythm; Music; History and criticism
Notes: Audio examples available on the website with username and password provided on the title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [218]-224), discography (p. [216]-217) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Theoretical perspectives I : musical time in Indian cultural perspective; title: Theoretical perspectives II : general theories of rhythm and metre; title: Tal theory as a model of rhythmic organization; title: Tal in practice : quantitative, qualitative, and cyclic functions; title: Lay: tempo and rhythmic density; title: Performance practice and rhythm in Hindustani music; title: The bandis; title: Development techniques and processes; title: Laykari: rhythmic variation; title: A case study in rhythmic analysis : instrumental vilambit and madhya lay gats in the repertoire of Deepak Choudhury (Maihar Gharana); title: North Indian rhythmic organization in cross-cultural perspective.